Saloons or No Saloons A Look at City Finances
An Illinois study compares town budgets with and without saloon revenue. Centralia shows $39,727 in expenses vs Mount Vernon at $21,850 after three years dry. Jacksonville and Sullivan mark anti license victories with civic improvements and banking gains. A Mattoon figure estimates 184000 annual saloon intake funds churches schools and city needs while 21000 revenue remains from saloons.
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Illinois
Centralia
Mount Vernon
Mattoon
Liquor Traffic Denounced as Not Legitimate Business
The argument condemns liquor sales as not a legitimate business, likening it to burglar tools and disease. It asserts beverages harm consumers and communities, and warns voters that supporting saloons endorses widespread calamities.
What Saloon Abolishment Means to Marion Illinois
A historical notice reports Marion Illinois saloons closed November 28, 1907 with fines recorded by multiple justices and magistrates. It urges residents to vote YES on April 7, 1908 to abolish saloons, noting potential townwide impact.
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Marion
Ill
Bankers Pulse on Post Prohibition Kansas City Saloon Closings
The author cites global and domestic inquiries about bans on saloons, and argues closures boosted business. Bankers, real estate, lumber, and furniture trades report higher activity, higher rents, more buildings, and public treasury gains. He notes wage potential rises in packing and footwear sectors. In 12 months deposits rose by one and a half million dollars.
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Kahsas City
Kan
Newton
Dengel & Newton
Our Boys liquor dealers affidavit on creating appetite for drink
An affidavit from Robert Wallace, sworn in Ross County Ohio, recounts a February meeting in Columbus where liquor interests allegedly discussed creating an appetite for liquor among boys. The statement quotes a representative urging nickel treats for boys to boost profits, with Wallace recording the remark.
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Saturday Evening Post
Felows
State of Ohio
Ross County
S. S
Wilbur G. Hyde
Robert Wallace
Wirthwein
Columbus
Local Option Stand Hailed in Thornton Township Prohibition Push
In a fields of Illinois history style piece the Thornton township local option drive frames liquor sales as a drain on farms homes and taxes. It argues saloons harm youth and economy and urges a yes vote next Tuesday with 800-plus Names on the Roll of Honor and vigilance against alcohol interests. The Dalton executive committee calls for voters to decide who rules them.
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Lincoln
Dalton
Thornton Township
Ilinois
Illinois
The
Liquor League
Liberty League
Thornton
Meeting an Old Friend from Virginia
A tall lady with a long blue coat recalls an April encounter on a crowded streetcar. An old colored man offers his seat with respect and an exchange of tokens leads to a small memory of Virginia. The narrator feels a warmer mood after the brief, courteous meeting and later receives arbutus as a gift from the man.
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Virginia
Mistis
Old Virginia
Lippincott's Magazine
Punishments of Historical Murderers Described
The excerpt recalls seventeenth and eighteenth century executions. It notes the 1831 immuring of two Mavromichaelis for Count Capo dIlstra s murder, Damiens torture for Louis XVs attempted assassination in Paris on March 28 1757, and Rayaillac s killing of Henry IV with similar torments.
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Mavromichaelis
Capo d'Ilstra
Greece
Damiens
Louis XV
France
Paris
Rayaillac
Henry IV
Novel Headstone for Danny in Suburban NY Tales
A maid Mary, new and Irish, finds a marble washstand and uses it to craft an unconventional headstone for her late husband Danny. A local stone-cutter carves a crude inscription and the memorial is placed at his grave in a borough suburb across the bridge, per a NY Sun report.
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Mary
Danny
Mum
N. Y
Is Housekeeping a Lost Art according to New York World
The New York World says two generations of emancipation have changed American housekeeping from a craft of the big house to a delegated art driven by bridge demands and higher education. It notes domestic work now often comes from immigrants and questions if housekeeping is truly lost or dormant and still capable of emergency demonstration, citing an Iowa trial as pivotal.
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Jacksonville
Lineis
New England
New York
Ireland
Sweden
Iowa
The Open Door Opens Worth A Million In Hearts
A brief reflection on the value of open doors in schools and theaters, suggesting access and opportunity may be priceless for children and adults alike.
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Sullivan
Moultrie County
Shuman
First National
Arcola
J. W. Samuels
J. W. Fowler
R. P. Hill
Hartwell
Kansas City
R. H. Wallace
A. D
Ole
Washstand
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